/obsidian-daily

description: Create or update today's daily note - pulls calendar events, overdue tasks, and conversation context
category: vault
trigger-mode: proactive
triggers_en: ["todays note", "create todays daily", "open daily", "today daily note"]
triggers_de: ["heutige Notiz", "erstelle die heutige Tagesnotiz", "Tagesnotiz öffnen", "Notiz für heute"]
triggers_es: ["nota de hoy", "crea la diaria de hoy", "abre mi diaria", "abre la nota de hoy", "dame mi diaria"]
triggers_pt: ["nota de hoje", "crie a nota diária de hoje", "abra a diária", "nota diária de hoje"]
triggers_zh: ["打开今天的日记", "创建今天的每日笔记", "更新今天的日记", "看看今天要做什么"]

Use the obsidian-second-brain skill. Execute `/obsidian-daily`:

1. Read `_CLAUDE.md` first if it exists in the vault root 2. If `CRITICAL_FACTS.md` exists in the vault root, read it for timezone; otherwise use the system timezone

3. Check if today's `YYYY-MM-DD.md` exists in the daily folder, resolved per `references/folder-map.md` (wiki-style `wiki/daily/`, Obsidian-style `Daily/`)

• If not: read the daily-note template (`Templates/Daily Note.md`, or lowercase `templates/` if that is the vault's folder), fill in date fields, create the file
• If yes: update existing note (inject, don't overwrite)

4. Pull calendar events (if a Google Calendar MCP is connected):

• Find the primary calendar with `mcp__claude_ai_Google_Calendar__list_calendars`, then fetch today's events with `mcp__claude_ai_Google_Calendar__list_events` (these are the tool names exposed by the claude.ai Google Calendar connector; if your calendar MCP namespaces its tools differently, use that server's `list_events` equivalent)
• Add a ## Calendar section to the daily note with:
• Time, title, attendees for each event
• For meetings with known entities: link to their `[[Person Name]]` pages
• If no calendar MCP is connected, skip silently (don't error)

5. Pull overdue and due-today tasks from kanban boards:

• Scan the boards folder (resolved per `references/folder-map.md`) for items with `@{date}` that match today or are past due
• Add to the daily note's Focus section with priority markers

6. Scan the current conversation for anything relevant to today:

• Tasks in progress, people mentioned, decisions made, what's being worked on
• Pre-fill or update the note's sections with that context

7. Check the operation log for last night's sleeptime consolidation (if `Logs/` exists: read yesterday's `Logs/YYYY-MM-DD.md`; otherwise read `log.md`):

• If the nightly agent ran, summarize what it did (reconciled, synthesized, healed)
• Add a brief "Overnight changes" note so the user knows what happened while they slept

8. Return the path of the daily note when done.

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**AI-first rule:** Every note created or updated by this command MUST follow `references/ai-first-rules.md` - `## For future agent` preamble, rich frontmatter (`type`, `date`, `tags`, `ai-first: true`, plus type-specific fields), recency markers per external claim, mandatory `[[wikilinks]]` for every person/project/concept referenced, sources preserved verbatim with URLs inline, and confidence levels where applicable. If that path does not resolve from your working directory, search upward for it; if you still cannot read it, say so before writing rather than producing a note that silently skips the rule. The vault is for future agent retrieval - not human reading.

**Anti-fabrication:** Search exhaustively before claiming any note, person, or file is absent - false absence is the most common failure mode - and never invent facts, entities, or dates (mark unknowns as `TBD`). See the anti-fabrication and search-completeness hard rules in `references/ai-first-rules.md`.

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From [obsidian-second-brain](https://github.com/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain), created by Eugeniu Ghelbur (AI Automation Engineer, AI Tooling Engineer, AI Educator). Questions or consulting: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeniu-ghelbur/) or [e.ghelbur@gmail.com](mailto:e.ghelbur@gmail.com). More: [The AI Operator](https://theaioperator.io/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=file-credit) | [X](https://x.com/eugeniu_ghelbur) | [GitHub](https://github.com/eugeniughelbur). MIT license.